Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-browed night.Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,...Take him and cut him out in little starsAnd he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with night,And pay no worship to the garish sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is rumored that in the fall the cows here are sometimes fed on cod's heads! The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human ...head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it,--coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! I felt my own skull crack from sympathy. What if the heads of men were to be cut off to feed the cows of a superior order of beings who inhabit the islands in the ether? Away goes your fine brain, the house of thought and instinct, to swell the cud of a ruminant animal!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This gift of mimicry in the actor is like a gift for likeness in a painter. Such a knack will not make his drawing fine, but it wi...ll give him a kind of solid reality which he can begin with and which he can alter and force to his own ends. The painter, for example, takes the landscape as the material for the expression of his idea; it is plain that he can express his idea more adequately if he knows the exact appearance that he works from, and that we, on the other hand, by knowing just what he has done to this material know better what he has expressed. In order to translate a gesture into elegance or extravagance or drunkenness an actor may best begin by being able to reproduce the actual literal gesture that he sees in life. To that literal and basic gesture the shortest cut lies in the power of mimicry. All of which amounts to saying that it is from this actual, literal gesture and the knowledge of what it would be in any given case that all style evolves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the the land,In England there shall be dear bread--in Ireland, swor...d and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;...When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rateOn ev'ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev'ry noble gate,In the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In those rare days, the press was seldom known to snarl or bark,But sweetly sang of men in pow'r, like any tuneful lark;.../>Grave judges, too, to all their evil deeds were in the dark;And not a man in twenty score knew how to make his mark.Oh the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »